Ray Evert

I worked as a teaching assistant for Dr. Evert´s introductory botany course for several semesters as a graduate student at UW-Madison. Dr. Evert was a kind and respectful supervisor and I learned a ton of botany from running laboratory sections in his course. I especially remember Dr. Evert´s story about buying his wife some roses early in their relationship, and how he accidentally allowed them to wilt before he could give them to her. Rather than throwing them away, he put the cut stems...